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The US today is viewed as a threat whose government cannot be trusted

Asiaban: Washington
has been at war for 12 years. According to experts , these wars have cost Americans approximately
$6 trillion, enough to keep Social Security and Medicare sound for
decades. All there is to show for 12 years of war is fat bank balances
for the armament industries and a list of destroyed countries with
millions of dead and dislocated people who never lifted a hand against
the United States.

The
cost paid by American troops and taxpayers is extreme. Secretary of
Veteran Affairs Erik Shinseki reported in November 2009 that “more
veterans have committed suicide since 2001 than we have lost on the
battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.” Many thousands of our troops
have suffered amputations and traumatic brain injuries. At the Marine
Corps War College Jim Lacey calculated that the annual cost of the
Afghan war was $1.5 billion for each al-Qaeda member in Afghanistan.
Many US and coalition troops paid with their lives for every one
al-Qaeda member killed. On no basis has the war ever made sense.

Washington’s wars have destroyed the favorable image of the United
States created over the decades of the cold war. No longer the hope of
mankind, the US today is viewed as a threat whose government cannot be
trusted.

The
wars that have left America’s reputation in tatters are the consequence
of 9/11. The neoconservatives who advocate America’s hegemony over the
world called for “a new Pearl Harbor” that would allow them to launch
wars of conquest. Their plan for conquering the Middle East as their
starting point was set out in the neoconservative “Project for the New
American Century.” It was stated clearly by Commentary editor Norman
Podhoretz and also by many neoconservatives.